Urges Survey Of Doctors To Maintain Medical Corps
Dr Newman Freedman of Montreal proposes a national survey of Canada’s medical manpower to maintain an adequate medical corps at home and for service abroad in a national emergency. The plan outlines provincial data collection, Ottawa coordination, funding, and ongoing revisions to match war needs.
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Canada
Dominion
Newman , Freedman
Montreal
Freedman
Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons
Ottawa
Canadian Medical Assciation
Medical Council of Canada
Dominion Treasury
Great Britain
English professor’s daughter Rails at Toronto stables
Stella Baker 19, daughter of an English engineering professor, loves horses and works as a groom at a North Toronto riding stable. She left Bristol for California, returned homesick for horses, and after calling multiple stables landed a job where she cleans stables, handles horses, feeds, polishes leather, and teaches riding. Her father initially hoped she’d pursue university but died before she left England.
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Toronto
Stella Baker
Bristol
California
England
Stella
Force Of Habit At The Pump
A banker facing a business slump takes a temporary gas station job. A customer asking for ten gallons explains his trip and the banker suggests saving by ordering five, quipping about travel distance.
Kaiser Wilhelm doubts world domination by Hitler
The German empire exile Wilhelm II told London interviewer Rev. E J T Bagnall that Providence forbids a world empire and that every attempt at global domination has failed. He noted Hitler’s rise fuels German pride but warned such ambitions cannot succeed, recalling his own imperial rise and collapse.
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Kaiser Wilhelm
Hohenzollern
Germany
Netherlands
Europe
Wilhelm
Bismarck
Sarajevo
Hitler
Mr. Bagnall
New Embossing Process Uses Rubber for Cloth Leather
A new method using rubber and continuous vulcanizing design allows economical embossing on cloth leather and imitation leather. The process enables durable patterns and potential cost savings for manufacturers and designers alike.
Food expert warns against rigid nutrition standards at Montreal meeting
Dr. F P Cathcart of Glasgow urges caution on fixed diet rules and promotes milk and cheese as sufficient nutrition when meat is not essential. He links modern meals to heavy work and notes whole meal bread plus milk or fruit could satisfy physiological needs. The article also covers Halbert P Gillette's drought forecast based on a 1701 year rainfall cycle with 1966 as a low point and historic periods of prosperity tied to earlier cycles.
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Canadian Medical Association
Montreal
F. P. Cathcart
University of Glasgow
Scotland
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Halbert P. Gillette
China
Greece
Rome
Must Cut Corners Swissvale Fire Truck Sparks Trim Dilemma
Swissvale residents celebrate a new $11 997 fire truck yet fear the 265 inch wheelbase is too long for many street corners. More than twenty corners must be shaved to allow the apparatus to turn. A confectioner wedding ended with sweets instead of confetti as a bricklayer call broke off his engagement.
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Swissvale
Pittsburgh
Bottle from Lady Drake adrift 1936 found off France
A bottle thrown overboard by Capt R A Clarke of the Canadian National liner Lady Drake near Bermuda on Oct 8 1936 was found on the French west coast. It drifted about 3900 miles in 21 months and aided the U S Navy hydrographic office in studying Atlantic currents.
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R. A. Clarke
Lady Drake
Bermuda
France
United States Hydrographic Office
Boston
Sydney Wool Centre Drives Careful Traffic Awareness
The article notes Sydney, Australia hosts the world’s largest wool market and urges careful driving to avoid accidents while navigating near the center. It emphasizes the market’s prominence and traffic considerations for visitors and traders alike.
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Sydney
Australia
Floral Cutwork Motifs Pattern 6300 for Linen Embroidery
The experienced needlewoman and beginner can enjoy floral cutwork motifs for linens. Pattern 6300 includes 16 transfer motifs from small to medium sizes, color guidance, and materials list. Send 20 cents to the Household Arts Department in Winnipeg for this pattern.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Alice Brooks
Fathers Of Confederation Groundwork For Canada’s Dominion
The article reflects on Confederation Fathers shaping Canada to a self governing Dominion. It cites figures like Wanamaker Field Paderewski and Hathaway on manners with a cash value. It traces passage from 1867 to 1939, listing provinces joining and the constitutional evolution from British North America Act to Westminster.
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Canada
George VI
Ottawa
Ontario
Quebec
Upper
Lower Canada
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Dominion of Canada
George
Elizabeth
Charlottetown
P E.L
Island
John A. Macdonald
Manitoba
Central
British Columbia
Pacific Coast
Prince Edward Island
Alberta
Sskatchewan
North West Territories
Newfoundland
British Commonwealth of Nations
Yukon
George Brown
George Etienne Cartier
Emperor Hirohito Adopts Frugal War-Time Routine
Report of Emperor Hirohito abandoning courtly splendor for a frugal regime amid the China war. He wears cotton clothing, uses a cheap watch, and devotes long hours to state affairs. He prays at his ancestors’ mausoleum, studies papers, and travels in a military uniform while eschewing luxuries and foreign imports.
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Hirohito
Japan
China
Asahi
Bank of Japan
Astute Passenger Wins Seven Mauretania Pools
Albert G. Tompkins of Maplewood New Jersey president of Swift Calculators Inc won seven ship pools on Mauretania’s first voyage to New York totaling 2305 dollars. He collected 500 680 and 775 from ship pools plus 150 hot pools and 200 on Ambrose Lightship timing.
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New York
Albert G. Tompkins
Maplewood
N.J
Swift Calculators, Inc
Broadway
Tompkins
Ambrose
Expensive Washington Laundry Keeps Priceless Linens Clean
Mrs. Margaret Diehl in Washington DC earns the title the most expensive laundress in the world by washing priceless foreign embassy linens. Bundles cost up to 250 dollars, including 50 dollars from the Swedish embassy for a meticulously embroidered banquet cloth. Her clientele spans wealthy locals and ships from Chicago New York and Palm Beach.
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Margaret Diehl
Washington, D.C
Europe
Diehl
Chicago
New York
Palm Beach
Noves
American Magazine
Sounded Logical Defense in Red Light Incident
A Florida man, described as a Negro, was ticketed for driving through four red lights. He told police he believed the red signals were for colored people because he noted white drivers going through on green, suggesting a segregated rule.
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Florida City
Emotional baggage costs hotel stay new tests flag lower radium
A bizarre quote describes baggage being deemed too emotional to receive a hotel room. The line references a jokey notion of emotional baggage. Separately, new tests indicate sea water contains less radium than earlier investigators believed.
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Patterson
Saskatchewan
Aberhart
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Ame
Drouth Prediction
Fathers of Confederation
St. Catharines
Charles B. Hathway
Rotarian
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John Wanamaker
Marshal Field
Paderewski
Washington
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